What is GODAN?Network, Action & Secretariat

04 October 2017Martin Parr, GODAN Secretariat & CABI

http://www.godan.info

GODAN advocates that important datasets in

agriculture and nutrition should be considered global public goods and made be

available to everyone

What is Open Data?

Data anyone can access, use and share

• Accessible (published on the web)

• Available (machine-readable format)

• Licensed to permit anyone to access, use and share it

FAIR Principles

• Data should be Findable

• Data should be Accessible

• Data should be Interoperable

• Data should be Re-usable

Much data should be open (openly licenced).

All data should be FAIR (or moving to be FAIR) - clear licence, metadata, persistent, provenance, machine readable http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618

Supports global efforts to make data relevant to

agriculture and nutrition available, accessible,

and usable for unrestricted use worldwide

Voluntary association of public and private

entities including donors, international

organizations and businesses who have agreed to

a joint Statement of Purpose

What is GODAN?

Our network

608 partners

Building a global momentum

Donors in the GODAN steering committee

• Germany a new addition to SC (to provide Secretariat post)

• China (CAAS) also to agree to provide position and will join SC in 2018

• DFID supports GODAN Action & GODAN Secretariat

GODAN Action Mission

Stakeholders benefit from improved and more effective use of open data for agriculture and nutrition by engaging with it in a practical and knowledgeable manner

●Organizational change through transparency

●Fostering innovation to benefit everyone

●More efficient and effective decision making

What open data can achieve

Why open data in agriculture and

nutrition?

• For climate smart agriculture

• For efficient pest management

• For efficient fertilizer use

• For avoiding price crises

• For informing consumers on food contamination

• ........The list could be cont’d

GODAN Action exists to:

facilitate use of standards by,

research the impacts for,

and build the capacity of

the network of actors

Activities• Improved interoperability of data through

providing improved standards and innovative services.

• by providing examples of improved tools for impact assessment, as well as by analysing barriers that hinder the full potential of open data initiatives and investments

• The development of tailored training courses will increase the capacity of stakeholders on how to use and handle open data

Starting with the problem

Open data as a solution

• Climate and weather data: open data as a catalyst for business development and capacity development

• Support to land data sharing: Localization and contextualized of relevant shared data sets to specific conditions

• Global Nutrition report: Data interoperability for searching in support of the report

Convene – Equip – Empower

GODAN Secretariat’s Purpose

OPEN WATER

Challenges

• “Open data is good only for the big players”

• “Open data will create more data monopolies and divides”

• “This research data is only meaningful in specific context [and only I understand that…]”

• “Somebody has to pay!”

Impact Matters for Development

https://f1000research.com/gateways/godan/godan-reports

Joint Donor Statement on

Open Data Policy and Practice

Donors agree to:

• Participate in global funder dialogue

• Promote good open data practice among those receiving

funding

• Efficiently and consistently engage with partners

• Promote appropriate guidelines and tools

• Document and track use of open data

• Responsibly use data

Empowering partners to make the move. Looking at making FAOSTAT open data

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